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Hi,

I am using the ruby one click installer all the while. Recently, I tried
to compile the latest ruby 1.8.6-p110 and I found it is quite painful to
compile it in windows.

I am able to compile it with VS2003. I can compile the ruby.exe and
rubyw.exe and some standard library without any problem.

After compile the ruby.exe, I tried it and it run quite well but when I
tried to install rubygems, it start complaining zlib not install. So, I
recheck the compile log and found that there are still a lot of ruby
extension which is not able to compile in windows because of missing of
some library/development header, for eg openssl, zlib, readline, curse,
nbm, iconv, pty, tk, syslog..etc .
This is no problem for linux coz linux can download all the dev file
easily like they can download zlib-dev with linux. However, doing this
in windows is hard.

For zlib, luckily I can found the source code and compile it
successfully. After that, I just install rubygems without any problem.
After install rubygems, I fire up IRB and type 'require
'irb/completion''. It complain again no readline ext found... :(   I had
to start finding any readline source/library for windows available on
net. I successful to found it with GNUWin but still not able to compile
readline binding for ruby....I read the log file, it will check for
ncurse.lib, termcap.lib, curse.lib, edit/readline.h...where do I get all
this file????

So, can anyone tell me how to compile readline for ruby in windows?
and so for openssl, curse, iconv, tk.....

Shin guey Wong wrote:
> 
> So, can anyone tell me how to compile readline for ruby in windows?
> and so for openssl, curse, iconv, tk.....

I just successful compile openssl base on the instruction below:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/120695?120482-121114+split-mode-vertical

I use the same technique to compile the tk binding. I can compile it but 
I get the following warning message:

*****************************************************************************
**
** PTHREAD SUPPORT MODE WARNING:
**
**   Ruby is compiled with --enable-pthread, but your Tcl/Tk library
**   seems to be compiled without pthread support. Although you can
**   create the tcltklib library, this combination may cause errors
**   (e.g. hangs or segmentation faults). If you have no reason to
**   keep the current pthread support status, we recommend you 
reconfigure
**   and recompile the libraries so that both or neither support 
pthreads.
**
**   If you want change the status of pthread support, please recompile
**   Ruby without "--enable-pthread" configure option or recompile 
Tcl/Tk
**   with "--enable-threads" configure option (if your Tcl/Tk is later
**   than or equal to Tcl/Tk 8.1).
**
*****************************************************************************

So, how do I configure with "--enable-threads" ? changing the Makefile? 
I never compile any ruby source myself.

My previous post question, I still no idea on how to compile readline 
for ruby....

Shin guey Wong wrote:
> 
> So, how do I configure with "--enable-threads" ? changing the Makefile? 
> I never compile any ruby source myself.
> 
> My previous post question, I still no idea on how to compile readline 
> for ruby....

Just finish compile the curse standard library with the lib from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30480

I had tried to compile it with pdcurse from gnuwin32 but it fails to 
compile.

Shin guey Wong wrote:
> tried to install rubygems, it start complaining zlib not install. So, I
> After install rubygems, I fire up IRB and type 'require
> 'irb/completion''. It complain again no readline ext found... :(   I had
> to start finding any readline source/library for windows available on
> net. I successful to found it with GNUWin but still not able to compile
> readline binding for ruby....I read the log file, it will check for
> ncurse.lib, termcap.lib, curse.lib, edit/readline.h...where do I get all
> this file????
> 
> So, can anyone tell me how to compile readline for ruby in windows?
> and so for openssl, curse, iconv, tk.....

You might want to look at the RubyForge details for the Windows
One-Click Installer. Since it's an open-source project, I'm guessing all
the scripts, Vulcan nerve pinches, etc., necessary to build the
One-Click Installer are there in the SCM repository. There may actually
be a forum there too. Then again, Curt might just update the One-Click
and Instant Rails with the latest Ruby source soon too. :)

On 9/25/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> > After compile the ruby.exe, I tried it and it run quite well but when I
> > successfully. After that, I just install rubygems without any problem.
>
> You might want to look at the RubyForge details for the Windows
> One-Click Installer. Since it's an open-source project, I'm guessing all
> the scripts, Vulcan nerve pinches, etc., necessary to build the
> One-Click Installer are there in the SCM repository. There may actually
> be a forum there too. Then again, Curt might just update the One-Click
> and Instant Rails with the latest Ruby source soon too. :)
>
>
>

I am working on an One-Click Ruby Installer update (currently stuck on
a problem with the ODBC bindings). I hope I can have something out
fairly soon (actually, I need to because I'm really short on available
time).

Curt